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Example sentences for "manacled"

Lexicographically close words:
mammy; mamook; man; mana; manacle; manacles; manada; manage; manageable; managed
  1. Her manacled hands went to her face, her body rocked forward from the waist.

  2. She flung up her manacled hands involuntarily; a sharp cry escaped her.

  3. They have no such intention, however, and the feeling of the visitor is rather one of pain and sorrow to see so many able-bodied fellows manacled than of fear in their presence.

  4. The penitentiary in which the convicts are confined after they leave the mine is about a mile distant, and as we drive thither we pass small bodies of them trudging along in the same direction and manacled at their feet.

  5. Le Duc made no answer, but bent his head down on his manacled hands.

  6. Hands off; I won't be manacled by a French jackanapes," cried Brown, turning round as one of the men seized his arm.

  7. There came the rumble of the prison van below, the tramp of feet upon the hollow stairs, and into the dingy, high-ceilinged hall of justice filed the accused, manacled and doubly guarded.

  8. Larubio, as he crouched there in the half-light, manacled but defiant, made a striking figure.

  9. With a furious, snarling cry he flung himself backward and raised his manacled hands to strike.

  10. He was taken on board, and instantly manacled at the wrists and ankles.

  11. Lance went up to the manacled one and accosted him.

  12. As Trent saw that they were manacled a frightful suspicion fastened upon him.

  13. Trent's eyes were drawn back irresistibly to the stakes where the prisoners were being bound, manacled wrists above their heads.

  14. One of the manacled men screamed and gibbered as he was being bound--sounds that were like nothing human.

  15. The manacled figures sagged, hung, drenched in the flaming red of the sunset.

  16. Perhaps my own brain was queer from the shock and the beating she had given me with her manacled wrist; but I felt that before I went away from there I must conceal the cause of her death, and everything about it that I could.

  17. Amidst this interchange of opinion, none of which was lost upon him, Professor Kent advanced and bent over the manacled corpse.

  18. When we got into the city, Childs was taken to a private room by the officer, who had taken off his manacles, and then manacled him again after writing the note, and telling us where to find his messenger.

  19. The drunken stranger immediately seized all the money on the table, notes and all, and ordered the gamblers manacled on the spot, which was done.

  20. Bobadilla was victorious, and the manacled Guevara and the rest passed over to new and less stringent keepers.

  21. The further reading of the letter brought up a picture of the manacled Admiral.

  22. It was in October, 1500, after a voyage of less discomfort than usual, that the ships of Villejo, carrying his manacled prisoners, entered the harbor of Cadiz.

  23. So in due time, this little cavalcade galloped into Isabella with its manacled prisoner.

  24. They carried about thirty Indians in confinement, and among them the manacled Caonabo, with some of his relatives.

  25. In the distance he could hear his late captor's manacled hands beating on the glass of the front windows to attract the driver's attention.

  26. Standing in the glare, however, they were partially blinded and the manacled man, realizing this, turned to the other.

  27. The huge manacled prisoner emerged, and shuffled awkwardly towards the inner room, closely attended by his armed escort.

  28. Yorke and McSporran fell in briskly on either side of their heavily-manacled prisoner, and stood watching the distant lights of the oncoming east-bound train as it rounded the Davidsburg bend.

  29. Over his blood-streaked, haggard face there swept the peculiar ruthless smile which they knew so well; and he raised his manacled hands in a semblance of a salute.

  30. And, as he sate on the humble pallet in the darkness of his solitary cell, he buried his face in his manacled hands.

  31. Graham was manacled heavier than the rest of us, stooping under the weight of his brazen fetters, and was confined by himself in the watchful keeping of a double guard.

  32. In his excitement Graham forgot his manacled companions, and hurried out on to the balcony to taunt the baffled crowd below.

  33. The commander contrived to make the three victims meet in a narrow way going to the sacrifice, all manacled and hobbling along, helped along, for they could not walk, by persons appointed to that duty.

  34. During all this time the four other men in irons sat manacled behind the captain, and he exults in telling the fine effects of his speaking on these "deeply guilty," as well as upon all the rest of the ship's crew.

  35. In the twinkling of an eye each of the prisoners was manacled hand and foot, shrieking and roaring for mercy.

  36. We have a score of brave, well-paid Italians who may be able to protect our person from the onslaught of two manacled men.

  37. Our wrists were manacled behind us, and we could not touch hands.

  38. While I was speaking the men gathered closely about us, and almost before my words were uttered, our wrists were manacled behind us and we were blindfolded.

  39. With these comforting words they thrust me into the cell, manacled and blindfolded.

  40. Is Manacled in Presence of Hysterical Young Heiress Who Faints as Her Lover is Overpowered.

  41. Baffled, stunned with the humiliation of his plight, he had not even spoken a good-by to Mary V, who had looked upon him strangely when he stood manacled before her.

  42. Ommodurad stopped, stared at the manacled hands gripping the hilt of the fabled blade.

  43. Foster stood, legs braced apart as though to withstand an earthquake, hands manacled before him.

  44. As the cargo was unchained from iron loops fastened to the side of the ship, their manacled hands were looped through a heavy line the seamen passed along the length of the lower deck.

  45. Finally, seeing the planters, he would stretch to cover his groin with manacled hands, the hesitation prompting a Dutch seaman to lash him forward.

  46. That, surely, is better sport than to drop caltrops upon the toes of manacled men.

  47. A laughing man-at-arms went up, his partisan still over his shoulder, and laying his hand upon the chain which depended between the manacled wrists of the boy Maurice, he strove to lift the spiked ball.

  48. His muscles relaxed and his manacled hands fell to his side, and the heavy irons clanked horribly in the vaulted cell.

  49. He was evidently expecting a midnight assassin, and though manacled and bound hand and foot, he would fight it out to the end.

  50. We soon had him and his men rigged up, gagged and manacled as deserters; we borrowed (without leave) kerchiefs of various colors which the Frenchmen had about them, and of them made bandages for those who were to pass as wounded.

  51. The captain's face was distorted with rage as he listened to this libel: he flung his manacled hands about and made frantic efforts to speak, which Joe's gag was too thoroughly fixed to allow.

  52. And the recollection of the indignity I had suffered at the hands of Topper and his fellows, coupled with the sight of the three deserters lying manacled and open-mouthed against the wall, gave me an idea that pleased me mightily.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manacled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bound; hampered; ironbound; strapped; tethered; tied